cherry.
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
Meaning & usage
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
The wood of a cherry tree.
Cherry red.
The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
A red cricket ball.
A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
The burning tip of a cigarette.
A woman’s breasts.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
Containing or having the taste of cherries.
Of a bright red color; cherry red.
In excellent condition; mint condition.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
To cheer, to delight.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
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